Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-09-29

2B The Ohio State journal in its issue of
September 20, has undertaken (for a con-
sideration, doubtless a characteristic piece
of unscrupuious political villainy. Itbelongs
to the class of journals that DO dirty work
(the dirtier, the more willingly and congenial-
ly) for dirty wages. The occasion of its
latest effort is as follows:
The Democratic Campaign Committee has
taken pains to put before the farmers of
| Ohio complete and ungarbled reprint Of
Governor Foraker's Special Message to the
Legislature, dated Arril 6, 1886, in which he
urges that there be Gan immediate revalua-
tion of real estate" on the ground that the
present valuation of real estate rarely ex-
ceeds 70 per cent and ranges downward
from that point as low as 25 per cent. of its
truevalue.o
The dissemination of this document among
those whom it sdirectly concerns, whose
character and whose interests it attacks, has
caused great CONSERVATION among the mana
gers Of that peculiar kind of Republicanism
which Governor Foraker and his campaign
committee represent.
When men like the present State Railroad
Commissioner. the State Librarian, the Gov
ernor's Secretary and the Clerk of the
Supreme Court think it compatible with
honor and common honesty to draw salaries
from the public treasury while they are
neglecting the public service and devoting
their time and energy to conducting Gov
ernor Foraker's personal campaign, there is
follower deep to which they can descend
Lying, fraud, forgery, any crime imagined
to be necessary to the attainment of the de-
sired end, may be committed with just as
little conjunction of conscience. Indeed,
to speak of conscience in such connection
is almost an abuse of language. When,
therefore, the State Journal (Which was never
known to support anything, least of all the
Republican ticket, until paid for it,) comes
forward and prints the idiotic charge that
the Democratic Campaign Committee has
issued "manRled" editions of the Foraker
message, changing words and figures, omit
ting and inserting passages, to suit its party
purposes, (and when the Columbus corres-
pondents of the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette and the CleUeldnd Leader repeat the
charge in precisely the same language,) we
may know that the thing was trumped up in
the added brains Of Foraker, Cappeller,
and Company, andpaid for with good money
at SO much q line.
The Foraker gang of Republicans feel that
they have been badly hurt in tender spot,
and no amount Of grimacing and lying on
their part will serve to cover up that patent
fact.
The Democratic Committee has sent out,
and will continue to send out, the damning
document in all its original completeness,
exactly as it is printed in the official record,
the Journal of the Ohio Senate for the ses-
sion Of 1886, on pages $50 to 1868, without the
omission, change, or insertion Of single
word, figure, or punctuation mark, (The
Senate journal can probably be found in the
Office Of every County Auditor in the State,
and any citizen may compare the message
as sent out by the Democratic Committee
with the original.
II the exact and naked truth hurts Gov
ernor Foraker, he has nobody to blame for IL
but himself. And it will not help him to
have his henchmen lie about IT.